A documentary book: real people tell their stories and bring to life a country and an era. These people were the first in their families to graduate, earning the "gold bracelet," and changed their lives. The family frustration that shaped an entire country.

Sofia Nikolaidou conducts interviews and presents in their own words those who left the village and came to the city. Those who were born into poverty from parents who knew little or no letters. Those who studied, got into university, acquired a respectable profession, and a comfortable life.

Farm kids who became doctors, labor kids who studied to become lawyers. Girls who fought for the obvious: a job and their own wallet. Freelancers and civil servants, graduates of public schools or scholarship holders of prestigious private ones. Children who studied in Greece or abroad.

In 20th century Greece, we experienced a peaceful revolution: a revolution armed with education and letters. A panorama of the 20th and 21st centuries in a country that changed and continues to change. Three generations of Greeks tell their stories and create a mosaic of voices - like the old mosaics in the homes we grew up in. A song whose chorus we know well. It is the voice that says, we may go hungry, but the child will study.